Poetic Geography
Katharine Lee Bates described this Colorado peak as a "Purple Mountain Majesty"
What is Pike's Peak?
(Tab 1) This famed French Impressionist and father of the movement was known for his light studies slowly went blind over the years.
Who is Claude Monet?
He made electric lighting practical for homes across America
Who is Thomas Edison?
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Creature reads, among others, this epic poem concerning the fall of man
What is Paradise Lost?
Piece of land and to follow one's footsteps
What is tract and track?
On the French coast of England, these "glimmering and vast" cliffs stand, as explained in the poem by Mathew Arnold
(Tab 2) This Pittsburgh-based pop artist was known for his "fifteen minutes of fame" and colorful paintings of soup
Who is Andy Warhol?
Who is J Robert Oppenheimer?
In Jurassic Park, Ian Malcom notes this famous sentiment, after expressing his doubts as to the security of InGen's plans to keep the dinos from breeding
What is "life finds a way?"
Flung, and a ceremonial seat
What is thrown and throne?
"Give me your tired, your poor" is a line on the bronze plaque inside this "new colossus"
What is the Statue of Liberty?
(Tab 3) This abstract expressionist artist was known for bold geometric works expressing "the pure human experience"
Who is Mark Rothko?
He's credited for the Virginia Framework, pioneering the representative republican framework of government
Who is James Madison?
This AI defense system went rogue and turned on its creators, but not because it became sentient! It only acted once it was directly threatened by man.
What is Skynet?
What is a moat and a mote?
In Langston Hughes’ ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers,’ the speaker looks upon the Nile and raises these above it.
What are the Pyramids of Giza?
(Tab 4) He was known for elevating NY graffiti to fine art, harnessing the icon of a crown over prominent Black heroes in his work.
Who is Jean-Michael Basquiat?
This Iowa born agronomist invented high-yield dwarf wheat, and won a Peace Prize for it
Who is Norman Borlaug?
Much like Victor Frankenstein, this visionary inventor from Blade Runner finds the key to creating the artificial man. Much like Victor, that same creation becomes his demise.
Who is Eldon Tyrell?
The bottom line, or Amos in the Bible
What is profit and prophet?
In ‘The Waste Land,’ T.S. Eliot has a crowd of the dead flow over this Thames crossing, the subject of a famous nursery rhyme.
What is London Bridge?
(Tab 5) Seen here, "Guernica" was a mural made in anger by this artist, after the namesake town was bombed during the Spanish Civil War
Who is Pablo Picasso?
He came up with the idea at age 14 on an Idaho potato farm. In 1927, he invented the Cathode Ray TV
Who is Philo Farnsworth?
Skynet, Ultron, The Matrix, the Replicants, the Creature, and the dinosaurs at Jurassic Park all exhibit this phenomenon for our fear of humanity's creations turning against them.
What is Frankenstein Complex/Syndrome?
A tool used for boring, or to serve as an omen for a future event
What is Auger and Augur?